CANADA: After travelling for more than 9 years, all the way through the solar system, New Horizons spacecraft of NASA is now on stage to reach its final target, which is the dwarf planet Pluto and its frozen moons located even more than 3.1 billion miles away.
The photographs obtained by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Jan. 25 and 27 displayed the photos of Pluto with its main moon Charon. These two pictures are the initial images of the two worlds which were taken in the approaching stage of the task.
Images of the Pluto and its moon were released on 4th of February 2015, which was the 109th birthday of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who was self-trained and was from Streator City, Illinois, other than that he is the person behind the discovery of Pluto. He found Pluto during work at the Lowell Observatory located in Flagstaff, Arizona
Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator from Southwest Research Institute located in Boulder, Colorado said, “These images of Pluto, clearly brighter and closer than those New Horizons took last July from twice as far away, represent our first steps at turning the pinpoint of light Clyde saw in the telescopes at Lowell Observatory 85 years ago, into a planet before the eyes of the world this summer.”
As an appropriate memorial, little ashes of Clyde Tombaugh have been put in a small container which is attached to New Horizons spacecraft.
The spacecraft was over 126 million miles far away from Pluto when the images were obtained with the help of telescopic LORRI camera.
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